[PATCH v11] Add pretty printers for the NPTL lock types

[Martin Galvan]

2016-12-23 14:05 GMT-03:00 Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com>:
> After *lots* of poking, it seems that something in the pexpect/gdb
> combination in my case was adding terminal escape sequences to the gdb
> output.  That made the error string look empty when printed, but it was
> not a zero-sized string and thus does not evaluate to false.

That's really weird. In any case, if I understood correctly: you were
using the newly built --with-python gdb, and still got an error saying
that gdb doesn't have Python support? If not, what was the actual
error?

> Switching to gdb 7.12 does not require ncurses or a termcap library
> anymore, and works with the existing pretty printers script.
>
> I suppose raising the minimally required gdb version would be helpful.

Alright, I can do that.

> It would also be helpful if scripts/test_printers_common.py would not
> discard the error when it cannot load the pretty printer modules for
> some reason.

Makes sense, will add it in a future patch.

> And nptl/test-mutex-printers fails in my setup, BTW.

How? What does the .out say? Does it fail for 7.12 too?